I've been training at a new gym for almost a month now. The facility is only a couple miles from work which is a 20 minute drive from home. We workout in the morning before work, needless to say I'm forced to use the showers at the gym. All of the showers are private so it's not really that bad...EXCEPT...
In college the faculty would use the same locker room as the students in the REC. My fraternity had a chapter/faculty adviser that swam religiously so it was common to run into him at the REC. That's fine, Doc Reynolds is a great guy and everyone enjoyed listening to his stories and taking the wisdom he was willing to give...EXCEPT...
The problem in both of these scenarios is all the old naked dudes strolling around the locker room with their towel tossed over their shoulder. No lie, I've actually seen multiple nekkid men in a circle talking and stretching. WTF, who does that? When is this behavior acceptable?
In college I thought it must be an age thing. You know, when I get older I'll care less about flashing my junk or something like that. But now that I'm nearly 30 (I know 30 is not old but it's getting old) I don't have any less reservations about keeping my privates private. I started wondering if this actually has more to do with generation than age. I believe I'm on to something here. What are your thoughts? More importantly, does this happen in the ladies locker room and please tell me it's reversed...young ladies in their 20s like to prance around in what God gave them. Then as father time and mother nature do their thing to the elder ladies they start to bundle up.
So it didn't go so well tonight. The Hens did win but the mobile posts did not go through. I learned my lesson though.
The problem is that Verizon send messages from two sources depending on if it's a text message or picture message. I originally claimed my text service but not the pix service. If I would have sent a basic text to my blog it would have gone through just fine. Since I sent a picture first...not to mention a bad one...it sent me a basic claim message so I stopped sending the pictures.
Hopefully this will work better for me in the future. Thanks for suffering through my learning process.
I'm sure it has been obvious to most of you that I'm new to blogging/writing, but now I'm going to attempt to expand the blogging experience to my mobile device. No more excuses for not updating the blog with a picture at least.
I'll be at a Toledo Mud Hens game tonight and hopefully I'll be able to snap some decent pictures to send to my blog. If this doesn't turn out well I won't know until I get home so please forgive any errors I may create trying this.
The freep is reporting that there is a cocaine shortage in The D. The market should be right for making money. The shortage is driving up prices and perhaps competition is lower as well. Any entrepreneur's dream market, Cha-Ching! Now all I need to do is lose my ethics, morals and find a sense of adventure (to jail or hell).
Although there was no way to strictly quantify the reports of the cocaine shortage, Walters' office said the average price of a kilogram of cocaine in Detroit was between $18,500 and $24,000 in the last three months of 2006 and has continued to rise substantially since then, by as much as 70%...
70%!!! A business with that type of growth may get you hired as the next Cerberus owned Corp's CEO.
Asked about the effect on crime a shortage and rising prices can have, [director of National Drug Control Policy for the Bush administration, John P.] Walters said that generally there is less violence when the drug market contracts and that if people can’t get cocaine, they are more likely to seek help for their addiction. The vast majority of drug-related violence, he said, is traced to people under the influence – and a shortage can mean fewer people using the drug.
Well good, as long as Bush's administration says it. Must be true.
I’ll admit I feel like I’m a little late to the party.Before I continue I feel I must warn you of the powerYouTubecan have on unsuspecting viewers.I was sucked in for a good…many hours.I kinda lost track of time.Just be careful.OK!Now that that’s out of the way I can get to the point.
We’ll start with a more common “youtuber”.Lonelygirl15 has a lot of subscribers to her YouTube account.I’ve never heard of her until I saw LisaNova do a parody of lonelygirl15.LisaNova is another one…HOLDON!Maybe I should start from the beginning; entrance to the rabbit hole, if you will.
See, what had happened was I’m trying to learn Jimmy Buffet’s “Margaritville” on my guitar and found that youtubers will teach strum patterns which makes learning new songs much easier.Anyway, I’m searching for the song and find this goofy dude playing margaritville.I’m what you might call “easily entertained” so I continued to watch.I find out that Dan Rohde (aka Rohde51) has a collection of random videos he has created and has collected a couple subscribers (88), which I’ve learned is the goal of YouTubers.I see Rohde has a couple videos dedicated to some LisaNova chick.In my twisted mind I’m thinking this guy made a video about some girl he knows that dumped him or something miserably entertaining like that.So I watch a couple of his LisaNova videos and realize I was way wrong.
I hit the search engine.“LisaNova”. There she was.This is when my trip down the rabbit hole takes a nasty turn.Up to this point I was looking at the clock and thinking I needed to get something done, but when I started watching LisaNova’s “sketchies” as they’re called, I lost all comprehension of time and frankly I didn’t really care.LisaNova is the director but it appears she has help creating, writing, acting in, filming and editing her videos.I’m not a movie critic or anything, I just like what I like and that’s good enough for me, but I thought her sketchies were very good.I’d encourage any of you to check out some of the work LisaNova has on her YouTube profile.Oh and evidently a lot of other people like her work considering she has over 47,000 subscribers.
Being a fan of “smack”, “talking trash” and other competitive banter I found it very amusing that YouTubers make parodies of each other as well.In my opinion, one of LisaNova’s more entertaining videos is a parody of lonelygirl15.Of course I had no idea who lonelygirl15 was.Yeah, I’ve been living under a rock.I get it.But, it didn’t take me long to figure out what was going on with these YouTube geniuses.Lonelygirl15 “Bree” is actually an actress by the name of Jessica Rose but started her profile as if she was simply doing a vlog as a 16yr old girl.Lonelygirl15 and her creators have nearly 96,000 subscribers and almost 140 videos.She’s been on Leno and I’m sure other shows that I don’t watch.
Lonelygirl15 is currently the #2 most subscribed to profile.LisaNova is currently #11 all-time, but I think she’ll soon be sitting on top, that is if she can catch smosh who is the clubhouse leader with a mere 132K subscribers.
I know you’re going to go check all this out, but please tie on a life line or set an alarm or something.
Forget about Spider-man, Jack Sparrow, and even Shrek.My early vote for 2007 summer hero goes to Autobot leader Optimus Prime in Transformers.
These shape-shifting aliens from my childhood will be hitting theaters July 4th.The special effects and action should be all the fireworks one needs to celebrate Independence Day.Speaking of…the trailer does remind me of Independence Day.I hope it’s nothing like it though.I had a roommate in college that sat in the room and replayed that movie over and over and over.JB Jabber knows what I’m talking about.
The action should be great.I doubt the plot will be very engaging but with all the special effects I’m sure I won’t care too much.I’d be remiss to not mention Megan Fox.There I’ve mentioned her and she’s hot, especially standing next to the Pontiac Solstice.Other talent includes Rachael Taylor, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Jon Voight, Bernie Mac, John Turturro and more.
The latest trailer is below for your enjoyment. [Source: michaelbay.com]
Interesting Facts:
- "Optimus Prime" means "the First and Greatest," and also roughly translates as "good leader".
- Megatron refers to megatons, which is related nuclear bombs.
- Barricade's side reads; "To punish and enslave" rather than "To protect and serve".
- Bumblebee's classic alternate mode was a Volkswagen Beetle, but this was changed to a Camaro.
Since we’re not going to stop or slow our gas consumption anytime within the next .50-.75 cents/gallon I thought I’d share a CNNMoney.com article regarding gas saving myths and some real tips that actually have a chance of saving you some money.
First of all, understand that any gas-boycott-for-a-day is to be ignored.It is impossible to change the law of supply and demand by simply not buying something for a day.Think about it…after that day is over you will still need to buy gas.The only way this works is if we use less gas PERIOD.This part is not in the article I just wanted to vent about that stupid idea.
Look out for any magic gas pills, additives or petro magnets claiming to increase fuel economy. All lies.I like to think the 4 people reading this blog are already intelligent enough to stay away from those products. If you missed the MythBusters about fuel economy then you will be happy to know that they found your vehicle is equally efficient with the windows up or down.
On to the good – common sense – stuff that is helpful to be reminded of during the summer…er…gas gouging season.
-Idling in traffic or waiting for a train, as I often do, it’s better to turn the engine off than to allow it to run.
-Check tire pressure.A well cared for rig will reward you with better fuel economy, I promise.
-Use your cruise control on the highway.This also keeps me from getting annoyed by drivers who slow-down, then speed-up, slow-down, then speed-up again.I hate that.
-If you drive a truck without a cover, keep your tailgate UP.I won’t get into details just trust me on this one.
If you don’t believe me about that stupid gas boycott then I encourage you to look it up and then take an economics course.Econ 101 would probably work.
